Melville, Mapping and Globalization: Literary Cartography in the American Baroque Writer

Author:   Dr Robert T. Tally Jr. (Texas State University, USA)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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9780826471512


Pages:   192
Publication Date:   09 August 2009
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Dr Robert T. Tally Jr. (Texas State University, USA)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.20cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.441kg
ISBN:  

9780826471512


ISBN 10:   082647151
Pages:   192
Publication Date:   09 August 2009
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Language:   English

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"Acknowledgements Preface: ""When Leviathan's the text"" 1. Out of Bounds: Melville's American Baroque 2. Spaces of American Literature: Geography and Narrative Form 3. ""An everlasting terra incognita"": Globalization and World Literature 4. Anti-Ishmael 5. Marine Nomadology: Melville's Antinomy of Pure Reason 6. ""Spaces that before were blank"": The Utopia of the Periphery 7. A Prosy Stroll: Overview and the Urban Itinerary 8. The Ambiguities of Place: Local Narrative and the Global City Conclusion: ""Leviathan is not the biggest fish,"" or, The Cartography of the Kraken Bibliography Index"

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Tally's reading raises provocative questions about neglected dimensions of Melville's work. This book would be helpful for upper-level undergraduates and scholars alike.--,


Tally's reading raises provocative questions about neglected dimensions of Melville's work. This book would be helpful for upper-level undergraduates and scholars alike.--Sanford Lakoff


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Robert T. Tally Jr. is Professor of English at Texas State University. He is the author of many books, including The Critical Situation: Vexed Perspectives in Postmodern Literary Studies (2023); For a Ruthless Critique of All That Exists (2022); J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit: Realizing History Through Fantasy (2022); Topophrenia: Place, Narrative, and the Spatial Imagination (2019); Fredric Jameson: The Project of Dialectic Criticism (2014); Poe and the Subversion of American Literature (2014); Spatiality (2013); Utopia in the Age of Globalization (2013); Kurt Vonnegut and the American Novel (2011); and Melville, Mapping, and Globalization (2009). The translator of Bertrand Westphal’s Geocriticism: Real and Fictional Spaces (2011), Tally is also the editor or co-editor of Affective Geographies and Narratives of Chinese Diaspora (2022); Spatial Literary Studies in China (2022); Spatial Literary Studies (2020); Teaching Space, Place, and Literature (2018); The Routledge Handbook of Literature and Space (2017); Ecocriticism and Geocriticism (2016); The Geocritical Legacies of Edward W. Said (2015); Literary Cartographies (2014); Kurt Vonnegut: Critical Insights (2013); and Geocritical Explorations (2011). Tally is the general editor of “Geocriticism and Spatial Literary Studies,” a Palgrave Macmillan book series.

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